Transhumanism makes grand claims about the future of humankind, from genetic engineering and artificial wombs to immortality and uploading humanity to the cloud.

Lead by pseudo-scientific thinkers like Ray Kurzeil, Transhumanism has become a popular ideology among Silicon Valley tech leaders including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

In recent years it has also become the focus of conspiracy theorists from Anti-Vaxxers to Qanon, who claim the ultimate goal of the "global elite" is to turn humans into post-humans.

The truth is that Transhumanism is a fantasy born in the pages of science fiction. While authors like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson warned against the terrors of Transhumanism, today's Transhumanists see it as an inevitability, and have transformed the fantasy of Transhumanism into an anti-human religion.


00:00:00 The Torment Nexus
00:01:34 Welcome to the Science Fiction podcast
00:04:06 Beyond our ape brained meat-sacks - a profile of Elise Bohan
00:08:23 We are in a time between worlds & Transhuman conspiracy theories
00:13:14 Understanding Transhumanism as narrative, storytelling and modern mythos
00:19:15 ONE - Transhumanism is Utopian
00:24:06 TWO - Transhumanism assumes fundamental change
00:26:00 THREE - Transhumanism is a pseudo-science
00:29:34 FOUR - Transhumanism is a religious vision of transcendence
00:34:38 FIVE - Transhumanism is authoritarian
00:39:12 SIX - Transhumism wants to liberate us from our human bodies
00:44:38 SEVEN - Transhumanism is science fiction
00:48:04 EIGHT - Transhumanism believes technology is the force of progress
00:51:40 NINE - Transhumanism devalues the human
00:55:58 TEN - "We're building God you know."
01:06:53 ELEVEN - Transhumanism is a power structure
01:13:01 TWELVE - Transhumanism is dystopian
01:16:20 THIRTEEN - Transhumanism is anti-humanism


Beyond Our Ape Brained Meat Sacks - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/04/beyond-our-ape-brained-meat-sacks-can-transhumanism-save-our-species

Jonathan Rowson on Zak Stein and our time between worlds - https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Rowson/status/1532318004071084034

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